- Retire llama-server-aux (Phi-4, 8000) and llama-server-toolcall (Mistral-Small-24B, 8001): stopped, disabled, unit files removed from host and Ansible role
- Promote llama-server-qwen (Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct-1M, port 8002) to sole production model, serving both friday and war-machine Hermes profiles
- Verified live: n_ctx=65536/n_ctx_train=1010000, and tool_calls response via /v1/chat/completions probe (no hallucination)
- Deleted superseded GGUF weights (phi-4, mistral-small, orphaned base-Qwen, gemma-2-27b) from astro-orbiter, ~45GB reclaimed
- Updated friday and war-machine Hermes profile configs (model + compression + skills_hub aux) to point at 10.1.71.130:8002
- Ryan explicitly accepted single-model tradeoffs for both profiles
Mistral (llama-server-toolcall, 8001) stopped temporarily on astro-orbiter to
free ~6.2GB VRAM headroom for this test window per Ryan/JARVIS approval.
Not a permanent decommission of Mistral.
- New llama-server-qwen systemd unit template, gated by llm_qwen_service_enabled (default false)
- Idempotent GGUF download task (bartowski Qwen2.5-14B-Instruct-Q5_K_M, stat-guarded)
- Launch flags per local-llm-64k-context-recommendation.md: ctx-size 65536, flash-attn, q8_0 KV cache, batch 2048/ubatch 512, jinja, parallel 1
- verify.yml only starts/verifies the qwen unit when llm_qwen_service_enabled=true
- README: documents live VRAM gate finding (nvidia-smi 2026-08-06: Phi-4+Mistral already ~16.6/24GB, ~7.5GB free -- insufficient for Qwen weights concurrently) and options
- Does NOT touch llama-server-aux (8000) or llama-server-toolcall (8001) service state
